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This past weekend the Twitterverse spoke-out in exasperation and opposition against traditional media networks (CNN specifically) and the absence of instantaneous coverage of the Iranian election and the resulting fallout. “We the people” wanted real-time information regarding the violent protests that erupted on the streets of Iran and the stories probing potential foul play in the results. We took to Twitter to express discontent and to also uncover the real story as it was unfolding live through citizen journalism. Read more

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Pink Radio is now live

Austereo’s Today network has just launched Pink Radio as one of their new digital radio initiatives.

Presented by the Hot 30 Countdown’s Tim Lee and Biggzy, Pink Radio features Pink’s songs, favourite artists, interviews and some special features.

You can tune in online at www.pinkradio.com.au

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Macquarie Southern Cross Media (MSCM) has announced that high definition television will be available to regional viewers of Southern Cross Ten who currently receive our high definition (HD) service in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and the ACT for the first time from 2 July, 2009.

MSCM’s Southern Cross Ten network will launch ONE HD to regional viewers who receive our HD service in these three states subject to digital coverage. Viewers will require a HD set top box or television to receive ONE HD.

ONE HD will be broadcast on Channel 50 which should be tuned in to the television sets of all viewers with a HD Set Top Box or built in tuner.

ONE HD is the only free to air channel devoted solely to sport, 24 hours a day, every day of the week.

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The Newcastle Ratings Week 24, week ending 13 June 2009

A year ago to this date, the ratings figures where some what completely different. SC Ten was struggling to make a decent 17, 18%. NBN was dominant, nearly reaching the 40′s and Prime, well, was always in a definite second place to NBN that was never challenged. Fast forward today and the figures have gone haywire. NBN still a clear winner, but not pulling the viewing numbers it used to. SC Ten has jumped on board the ‘Why be Third when you can be Second Train’ and Prime is slowly sinking in ratings before our eyes, although it did rise 1% from last week? Interesting…

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National Ratings
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

At the moment, the commercial stations are closer in audience share than they have been in years. Thanks mainly to Masterchef, Channel Ten averaged 24.5 per cent of the prime time audience last week, while Nine got 25.5 and Seven got 27.6 (ABC 17.4, SBS 5.0). That’s a portrait of how the year will proceed: Seven static, Nine continuing its slow decline, and Ten booming (but not quite enough to knock Nine off No. 2 spot).

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Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation recently declared “the days of free news online to be over.”

Printing press originally uploaded by Travel Aficionadoonline to be over."

NEWSFLASH for Mr Murdoch: the news press no longer control their destiny. The audience is now in charge.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about newspaper publishers investigating new business models. Most of the talk has been the result of declining revenue for news press as classified advertising has migrated online.

Contrary to popular blogger opinion, newspapers aren’t dying because people don’t read newspapers anymore, or because we all get our news from the Internet. While there has been a small decline in subscriptions and sales of the printed newspaper, this isn’t the killer. Its the evaporation of the “rivers of gold” that classifieds represented which has hit the industry hardest.

Subsequently, declining revenues have resulted in cost-cutting that is now affecting quality journalism. And that’s a major concern.

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The Newcastle Ratings Week 23, week ending 06 June 2009

Last week the ratings figures took a dramatic change, with SC TEN jumping over Prime for a strong second. Again this week SC TEN has done it again, beating Prime for the second place position on the stations ratings. NBN and SC TEN seem to be going up in figures, however, Prime seems to be going down? As for the most watched programs, SC Ten has managed to get two of its programs up on the NBN dominated board.

Read on for the figures…

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National Ratings
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

It’s just as well The Chaser team decided to do their satire on sentimental fundraising on a night when their show was up against one of the biggest biffo events of the year. The State of Origin distracted 400,000 of the Chaser’s most conservative fans and therefore saved them from being shocked and offended. When some of them tuned in to ABC2 for the repeat later in the week, to see what the fuss was about, they found the controversial item had been deleted.

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Over at GetSticky we have been exploring Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft and conducting search engine optimisation, SEO, tests on it.

Check out our first thoughts on Bing and see how our sites have performed with SEO thus far. Its certainly different to Google and could trip a few web developer up.

By the way: did you know that BING stands for But Its Not Google?

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